Ultrarelativistic oscillon collisions

Mustafa A. Amin*, Indranil Banik, Carina Negreanu, I. Sheng Yang

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Abstract

In this short paper we investigate the ultrarelativistic collisions of small amplitude oscillons in 1+1 dimensions. Using the amplitude of the oscillons and the inverse relativistic boost factor γ-1 as the perturbation variables, we analytically calculate the leading order spatial and temporal phase shifts, and the change in the amplitude of the oscillons after the collisions. At leading order, we find that only the temporal phase shift receives a nonzero contribution, and that the collision is elastic. This work is also the first application of the general kinematic framework for understanding ultrarelativistic collisions [1] to intrinsically time-dependent solitons.

Original languageEnglish
Article number085024
Number of pages6
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume90
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Oct 2014

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